Academic disciplines

Lehman, E. C., Jr. (1974). Academic discipline and faculty religiosity in secular and church-related colleges. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 13, 205-220. 

It is important to remember that many style manuals, as well as other printed texts, collections, and websites, are continuously being updated and revised. Be sure to check with your local librarian, bookstore, or the publisher to confirm that you have the most current edition of the materials that you need. In addition, it is always helpful to confirm with your instructor beforehand whether he or she favors a particular style manual or text. As mentioned previously, many academic disciplines and institutions prefer certain style manuals, while the business and professional world may use other texts. In the end, however, any text or other material you consult... 

With concerns growing about the rising cost of drug therapies it is not surprising that a new academic discipline has arisen—pharmacoecononics. Not entirely new, the study of therapeutic outcomes from an academic perspective has remained somewhat intuitive up to now but obviously is of considerable interest to developing... 

In a 1999 survey of 110 energy companies, flow assurance was listed as the major technical problem in offshore development (Welling and Associates, 1999). On September 24,2003, in a Flow Assurance Forum, Professor James Brill (2003) discussed the need for a new academic discipline called Flow Assurance. Such a question, presented to an audience of 289 flow assurance engineers, would not have been considered in 1993, when the flow assurance community totaled a few dozen people. 

Quantum Chemistry became recognized as an academic discipline in its own... 

The Textbook of Quantitative Inorganic Analysis by Kolthoff and E. B. Sandell, published in 1936, did much to establish analytical chemistry as a separate academic discipline in the United States.329 The dramatic changes in analytical chemistry in the twentieth century, and especially after World War II, have had a major impact on university and college courses. The changing nature of such courses in the United States, both introductory and advanced, has been traced by surveying the contents of various analytical textbooks over a fifty year period.330 A similar study looks at seven successive editions of the same analytical textbook over the period 1948-1988, thereby... 

C. Friedrich, The influence of pharmacists on the development of pharmacy and chemistry as academic disciplines , Pharmazie, 1992,47,541-546 [in German],... 

Although typically whiggish, Smith s historical survey is extremely rich and useful because it emphasizes the interplay between various academic disciplines and the longstanding practical tradition of metallurgists. The quotation above points out at the two fundamental notions - structure and properties - of modem metallurgy which are also the basis of the conceptual framework of modern materials science. The earliest notions on metallic structures - polycrystallinity, solid solutions, segregation, diffusion, deformation - were not elaborated by theoreticians but rather by practitioners. [7]... 

This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No 20525519, 90606014, 20890020), and Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project B109 Shanghai Nano-08XD14010. 

Science is a noble pursuit that can engender fierce loyalty. The purpose of science is to explain the physical world—a very serious enterprise. However, other academic disciplines (principally philosophy and theology) also are in the business of explaining parts of the world. Although most of the time these disciplines stay out of each other s way, sometimes they conflict. When that happens some dedicated people put their discipline ahead of the goal it is supposed to serve. 

The early rise of chemical engineering as an academic discipline was characterized by an intimate association between the university and industry in several different ways and at various critical periods in U.S. history. This interaction was especially important in influencing the Course in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centennial of which we celebrate. In this paper, I trace the development of the program at MIT and the role played by academic-industrial interaction. I have divided this early development into two time periods, 1888-1920 and 1920-1941, because each was associated with a single dominant personality, William H. Walker and Warren K. Lewis, respectively. 

A century has passed since the field of chemical engineering became formalized as an academic discipline. To mark this occasion, the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sponsored a celebration on October 5-9, 1988 consisting of a Centennial Symposium of Chemical Engineering and an Alumni Convocation. This volume is a permanent record of all of the presentations and discussions at the symposium together with several papers presented at the convocation. 

Marsden, B., Engineering Science in Glasgow Economy, Efficiency and Measurement as Prime Movers in the Differentiation of an Academic Discipline) The British Journalfor the History of Science, 25(1992), pp. 319-46. 

Exposure to fungal spores is ubiquitous and, therefore, of pivotal importance for the development of mycoses acquired via the respiratory tract. This situation has also led to increased public awareness of the importance of indoor air quality and to the emergence of aerobiology, which has established itself as a major environmental academic discipline (Levetin and Homer). 

Exercises are included all along, but not in the style of a textbook for a conventional academic discipline. Instead we intend the exercises to permit a more natural dialogue, e.g. by reserving technical issues for secondary consideration, or by framing consideration of an example that might be off the course of the main discussion. 

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